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No 100 Article No. 539.

Decree of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars.

On the abolition of payment for any type of fuel provided to state enterprises and institutions, as well as to workers and employees employed in them.

1. The funds required for the procurement of all types of fuel

(firewood, coal, oil, peat and shale) are concentrated exclusively in the estimates of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

2. State institutions and enterprises receive fuel from the relevant bodies of the Supreme Council of the National Economy without payment in banknotes or circulating transfers.

3. Distribution bodies receiving fuel for free distribution receive it without payment in banknotes or negotiable transfers.

4. Fuel is dispensed free of charge, according to the rules and regulations approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy in accordance with the relevant submissions of the

Main Fuel Committee:

a) all employees and workers of state enterprises and institutions, as well as institutions and enterprises of the Communist International, the All‐Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Central

Union of Consumer Societies;

b) all invalids of war and labor, wives, children and parents of the Red Army and military sailors and all persons under the care of the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Social Security and the Peopleʹs Commissariat of Health.

Note . For the delivery of fuel to consumers by government agencies, no fee is charged either.

5. Instruction on the procedure for enforcing this decree and on establishing the rules and procedures for reporting is developed by the Supreme Council of the National Economy in agreement with the Peopleʹs Commissariats of Finance and the Workers ʹand Peasantsʹ

Inspection by January 1, 1921.

6. This decree shall enter into force on January 1, 1921.

Signed by:

Chairman of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin) .

N. Gorbunov, Administrator of the Council of Peopleʹs Commissars . Secretary L. Fotieva .

December 23, 1920.

Published in No. 296 Izvestia of the All‐Russian Central Executive

Committee of Soviets dated December 31, 1920.